Marco Arment

With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice,…

— Marco Arment

I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized…

— Marco Arment

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but…

— Marco Arment

In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer,…

— Marco Arment

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person…

— Marco Arment

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to…

— Marco Arment

People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.

— Marco Arment

Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.

— Marco Arment

Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown.

— Marco Arment

People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually…

— Marco Arment

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

— Marco Arment

Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people…

— Marco Arment

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

— Marco Arment

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

— Marco Arment

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

— Marco Arment

I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really…

— Marco Arment

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first…

— Marco Arment

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something…

— Marco Arment

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical…

— Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

— Marco Arment

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have…

— Marco Arment

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing…

— Marco Arment

Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy…

— Marco Arment

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the…

— Marco Arment